Third class, third period

Well, now in my last class the teachr told us to review all the topics we have been teaching, so I decided to make all my activities in that way. First of all, I started the class with the very known warm up called "Head, shoulders, knees and toes"; all the students participated in teh activity even the late comers that joined after some minutos; every time a student made a mistake in the game she or he had to answer some questions about multiple intelligences or how to stay focused that were some of the topics previousl taught. The actuvity lasted for five or seven mintes and after that I started reviewing about the grammar points they saw during the whole unit; one of them was subordinating conjunctions, so the following activity was a wordsearch that included many subordinating conjunctions and students had to find at least 10. After that, they were asked to complete some sentences with subordinating conjunctions and transitions, ythey were fifteen sentences and after some time I checked orally if they had the sentences correct and they made just few mistakes which means that they understood the topic. Then, students were asked to stand up and make an activity in pairs reviewing multiple intelligences, the activity was called mirrors and what they had to do was that they had to be face to face speaking and the person in front had to be doing the same things and saying the same things the other was doing, they had much fun with the activity. At the end I checked some exercises they had as homework and I said some farewell words thanking for their cooperation and attention.

Second class, Third period

In this second class with the group everything was different and better because I had more confidence already with the group and because I knew in a better way how they were and how they behaved in class. This time I started my class with a warm up activity in which the students had to split in two groups and they had to choose a representative, each group will have a representative that would make gestures or actions so that the group guessed the animal or famous person they were representing, students had much fun with the activity. After that I started to explaina little bit about the new topic, but linking it with the previous one that was subordinating conjunctions and transitions because this new topic was transitional words or expression, I had to explain for kind of transitional expressions and give some examples of them; then students went to page 82 in their books and they had to discuss about a previous passage they were reading, in pairs they had to talk about the things that help them to be focused or concentrated and if any of the tips they read previously was useful for them or if they have triend them before. Inmediatly after that they listed the things that make them stay focused and the things that make them loose concentration. Then, students moved to page 83 in which they had new words or vocabulary and then they had some sentences in which they had tu used those new words, but before they made that exercise we were discussing and I was explaining the meaning of those words so that they had a better idea of them. This second class was more related with the book and the activities they had there, but students were really attentive and they understood the transitional expressions.